Head of Sales, Sport

The Vice President, Customer Solutions Advisory, Sports is a strategic and technical leader responsible for driving Vizrt's global sports solution advisory organization. This role oversees the global team focused on sports pre-sales, ensuring alignment with Vizrt's sports strategy and solution portfolio including Viz Libero, Viz Arena, Viz Engine, data workflows, AR/XR, and cloud-enabled sports production.  The VP must be capable of delivering high-quality demonstrations, leading complex proof of concepts, designing end-to-end workflows, and architecting robust solutions. Lead and manage the global Customer Solutions Advisory (Sports) team, ensuring consistent execution aligned with Vizrt's global sports strategy. 

~ Partner closely with Sports business leadership, Product Management, and R&D to shape product direction, market readiness, and solution innovation. 

~ Participate in sports strategy sessions, long-term planning, and cross-functional leadership forums. 

~ Establish global standards for sports demonstrations, workflows, technical validation, and customer engagement. 

~ Ensure the global team remains aligned on customer outcomes, competitive landscape, and evolving sports production trends. 

Engage with strategic sports customers including major broadcasters, leagues, and federations to understand objectives and define success criteria. 

~ Represent Vizrt at high-profile sports events, technology conferences, and industry forums. 

~ Lead high-impact proof of concepts, solution evaluations, and technical workshops for key accounts. 

~ Ensure all demonstrations and POCs follow best practices and reflect the full capabilities of Vizrt's sports portfolio. 

~ Architect end-to-end sports production workflows that span analysis, AR, data integration, live production, replay, automation, and multi-platform distribution. 

~ Validate system requirements, integrations, performance considerations, redundancy, and scalability. 

~ Ensure solutions are modern, efficient, and aligned to customer outcomes across broadcast, digital, and in-venue applications. 

Work closely with Sales leadership to support pipeline growth and strategic account planning. 

~ Collaborate with Product Management and R&D to communicate customer needs, feature requests, and market requirements. 

~ Ensure tight alignment with Professional Services on POCs, project scoping, onboarding, and delivery. 

~ Partner with Marketing to support thought leadership, case studies, and sports solution storytelling. 

Deep, hands-on expertise with Vizrt sports solutions (Viz Libero, Viz Arena) and the broader Vizrt ecosystem (Viz Engine, Viz Artist, data integration, AR/XR workflows, cloud production). 

~ Ability to deliver high-quality technical demonstrations, live solution walk-throughs, and customer workshops. 

~ Proven experience architecting end-to-end sports production or sports analysis workflows. 

~ Strong understanding of sports broadcasting, live event production, venue operations, and digital sports delivery. 

~ Leadership experience managing regional or global technical/pre-sales teams. 

~ Experience collaborating with Product Management and R&D on roadmap priorities. 

~ Fluent in English; additional languages (especially Spanish) are a plus. 

8+ years in sports technology, broadcast engineering, sports analysis, or similar fields. 

~ Background in player tracking, virtual advertising, advanced data visualization, or coaching analysis. 

~ Experience engaging directly with C-level executives and technical leadership at major sports organizations. 

Strong technical and business acumen in sports production and storytelling. 

~ Creative problem-solving and solution-oriented thinking. 

~ Strong cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Product, R&D, and Operations. 

~ Travel Requirements 
~ Ability to travel globally, approximately 30-40% of the time. 

~ Travel may include nights and weekends due to the nature of sports events. 

Must be willing and able to travel internationally as needed 
 
We strive and innovate to deliver the best software-defined visual storytelling tools to the world's storytellers across broadcast, media, public service, enterprise, not-for-profit, education, health, houses of worship, in fact wherever there is a need to educate, entertain or inform. So, for us diversity is not an optional objective, it is a simple reality. It is true that we hold our diversity to be essential, it is something we constantly nourish and pay attention to, but it is not something we take for granted. We champion inclusion and we value each other's stories, and we relish their telling
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans to keep you and your family healthy
Paid Time Off: Generous vacation days, sick leave, and holidays to ensure you have a work-life balance
Professional Development: Opportunities for ongoing training